Love Sickness LE/SE 1.4

A consequence mod for sex, specifically sex with males (it's intended for female characters, but it works well for gay men).  It offers a downside for prostitution, sexual assault, or simple promiscuity with men that does not involve pregnancy or wear & tear, although it can be used along with those kinds of mods.

 

Love Sickness resembles a pregnancy mod by creating a chance for an "oh no" moment after sex.  You suddenly get unlucky and receive a set of flat debuffs.  However, like a wear & tear mod, the more sex you engage in, the worse things become.

 

Conditions and effects are highly configurable, with multiple levels of peril.  The net effect could be a minor annoyance (similar to catching a cold), or a "bad end" with little hope of recovery, or even a form of character reset.

 

This mod works as-is with LE and SE (and AE).  If your mod manager complains about form number 43, feel free to open and save the mod in the Creation Kit, but that's not necessary.

Lore

Semen can produce a euphoric state in females, like a narcotic agent.  Although it feels pleasant, it comes with debilitating effects.  It is an occupational hazard of prostitution, though it does make the job easier.  Whores have various names for it.  Nice girls call it the "love sickness".

 

Under the intoxicating effects of love sickness, thinking is clouded, and reactions are impaired.  Adventuring becomes risky.  A love sick gal might just stay home awhile and, oh, have more sex.  That's risky, too.  Sex while love sick can extend the condition's duration, making it a difficult hole to climb out of.  It's a pleasant, comfortable state, with worries pushed out of mind.  To make matters worse, with frequent insemination the narcotic component can build up until it reaches an overload point, potentially permanently lowering resistance to love sickness, or even causing skills to be forgotten.  Sex workers might find that they've become unable to do any other kind of work -- not that their pimps would *dream* of exploiting this risk.

 

Your female adventurer is aware of these challenges and must try to cope with them.

How It Works

All debuffs and effects are configurable.  You get only the debuffs and risks that you choose.  You can set up love sickness so that it does nothing at all.  The settings can be changed and applied even while your character has love sickness.  If the effects seem too easy or too harsh, just change them -- immediately.

 

Your character has a chance to develop love sickness whenever she has sex with a man.  When that happens, she gets love sickness for the base duration.  Sex with men while love sick can extend the duration.  She would do best to wait out the condition, if she can.  While love sick, every insemination potentially adds to her euphoria level.  The level decays over time.  Its value is added to the base chance to get or extend love sickness.  It's a spiraling effect.  The higher the euphoria, the more likely it is that the love sickness duration will increase with each insemination.

 

When euphoria reaches 100%, an "overload" reaction might occur.  If it does, three things can happen (all configurable):
- The euphoria level will partially reset.
- The character will permanently lose resistance to love sickness.
- She will lose skills, and optionally might lose a level due to skill loss.

 

Loss of resistance to love sickness causes a slow decline.  It becomes easier and easier to become love sick.

 

Character level loss is turned off by default so that no one gets surprised, but I recommend enabling it.  Otherwise, being near the bottom of a level effectively makes you immune to skill loss.  If you lose a level, you'll lose one unspent perk point.  If you have no free points, you keep all your perks, but you'll have a perk point debt to repay after you regain a level.

 

Ostim Version

Love Sickness uses a single set of files for SexLab and Ostim, so as of version 1.3, there is only one download file that merges changes for Ostim provided by @A|one.  The mod checks for the presence of SexLab and uses that if it's found; otherwise, it assumes Ostim.  If you have both frameworks, select the one for this mod to use in the settings.  If you use Ostim, you won't have access to features related to rape or creatures.

Soft Integrations

- Arousal can be used as a factor if any version of SexLab Aroused is installed.  (The Ostim version works with any arousal mod.)
- The mod will count multiple orgasms if Separate Orgasms is installed, but it will handle them all at once at sex end.  You should use the default "On sex end" option for when to check.

Compatibility

The mod works with all versions of Skyrim.  The esp file uses form 43.  It needs no conversion, but you're free to resave it as form 44 if you're concerned about a harmless manager warning.   However, do not create an esl, because other mods integrate with Love Sickness, so the expected form IDs should not change.

 

Skill Loss:  It is not recommended to use this mod's skill loss feature together with another skill loss mod IF that mod is configured to trigger on sex (rather than on defeat or other conditions), since both mods could attempt to remove skills (and potentially a level) at the same time.

 

Skill Progress:  Mods that change experience gain per skill might cause a skill rank to be "lost" without actually dropping a full rank.

 

Gender:  This mod determines gender according SexLab's gender setting.  The Ostim version uses "cums inside player".

 

Creatures:  Male creatures are recognized as male sex partners, but this mod does not introduce any bestiality.

 

For Mod Authors

Credit

@A|one for the Ostim conversion.

hilaribad for Defeat Skill Loss, which inspired this mod's skill loss system and provided scripting examples.

EnaiSiaion for allowing use of the Dibellan Hearts texture and hit shader example from Wintersun.

@Rob_J for the Yandere Eyes texture.

The Eyes Of Beauty on Nexus by LogRaam for the base eye textures used in the sample heart eyes.

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